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Midlife. The in-between years when you're no longer young but you're not old yet either. It's that time in your story when you're crying all the way home from leaving your kid at college. Or crumpling up your high school reunion invite because life has not turned out at all in the way you said it would. You're waking up in the middle of the night wracked with financial worry. You're going through a divorce or grieving your spouse or wondering who that man is across the table as you haven't really connected for years. It's exhausted caregiving and a waistline you don't recognize. It's staring ...

From Frozen with Fear to Dancing in the Snow: A 30-Day Journey to Unshakeable Courage What if the very traits you're afraid are unfixable are actually your greatest strengths? At fifty-four, smack dab in the middle of a mid-life crisis, Bernice McDonald found herself perched on a zipline platform, tears streaming down her face—and discovered that courage isn't about being fearless. It's about taking one tiny brave step, even when your knees are shaking.